Hume AI
Hume AI is an Emotion & Prosody Models company founded in 2021 and based in New York, United States. It has raised $62.7M in total funding, most recently a Series B in 2024.
Hume AI builds empathic voice models that detect and generate emotional prosody in speech for more human-like conversational agents. Raised $50M Series B led by EQT Ventures in 2024; founded by Alan Cowen, former Google AI researcher.
Hume AI pioneered the emotion-aware voice layer, enabling agents to respond to tone and affect, not just words.
At a glance
Total raised
$62.7M
Headcount
51-200
Headquarters
New York
United StatesFounded
2021
Status
Private
Subsector
Funding history
Total raised
$62.7M
Rounds tracked
2
Latest stage
Series B
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2024 | Series B | $50M | — | EQT Ventures |
| Jan 1, 2023 | Series A | $12.7M | — | Union Square Ventures |